Andrew Whitby
Lead Data Scientist (Senior Engineer)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Whitby is a Lead Data Scientist and senior engineer with 12+ years building data products at the intersection of economics, development and engineering, currently driving client-facing research at Bloomberg. Trained as an econometrician with a PhD from Oxford and a background in computer science, he combines rigorous time-series and causal methods with practical engineering—having built the World Bank's wbgviz R library and led the online-first Atlas of the Sustainable Development Goals. His work spans unconventional data sources (satellite imagery, call detail records, scraped POIs) through to end-user visualization and publication, and he has led mixed technical and non-technical teams of up to a dozen. He also authored THE SUM OF THE PEOPLE, a widely reviewed history of the census that signals his habit of turning technical analysis into compelling public narratives. Comfortable in both nonprofit and commercial environments, he brings product-minded data science and a taste for interdisciplinary storytelling to complex socio-economic problems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Economics at University of QueenslandDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics (Time Series Econometrics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics (Time Series Econometrics) at University of Oxford
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
bank10
infer10
r-package10
explore10
r9
proj9
data-visualisation9
database8
spatial8
grammar8
visualization8
geos8
postgresql7
dashboard7
gdal7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
econandrew/census2020_progress
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 months
worldbank/sdgatlas2018
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes in 2 days
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